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Howard_Casto:
Well that was some utter b.s.

I'll allow it though because we get Glenn back. Probably just in time for him to die, but whatever.

Howard_Casto:
Ok now that the drama is over how about a lack of logic alert?

This whole episode we keep hearing the idea "If only we could get to one of the cars outside we could drive off and lure the herd away."

So let's say you are in Alexandria and you have a gate at the entrance to the town wide enough to drive a car through. Do you keep your car:

a. Inside the town so that in a worst case scenario like what happened tonight, you can drive the hell away.

or

b. Park it outside because LOL you need the exercise or whatever excuse the show runners want to make up.

Seriously I thought with last season all the dumb writing was finally out of everyone's system but this season is like the revenge of the stupid.

harveybirdman:
They couldn't pay rights for any more NIN music.

dkersten:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on November 22, 2015, 11:30:58 pm ---Ok now that the drama is over how about a lack of logic alert?

This whole episode we keep hearing the idea "If only we could get to one of the cars outside we could drive off and lure the herd away."

So let's say you are in Alexandria and you have a gate at the entrance to the town wide enough to drive a car through. Do you keep your car:

a. Inside the town so that in a worst case scenario like what happened tonight, you can drive the hell away.

or

b. Park it outside because LOL you need the exercise or whatever excuse the show runners want to make up.

Seriously I thought with last season all the dumb writing was finally out of everyone's system but this season is like the revenge of the stupid.

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I agree, but if you used logic then you wouldn't have a story..

I have to add though, it's tough to stay logical when trying to craft a situation in a story. There is always a point where you just have to decide someone did something illogical or even just plain stupid that led to the situation. Perhaps the people of Alexandria got rid of the cars so nobody would be tempted to suicide into the walls. Perhaps they decided that there was nowhere to go so they didn't need cars. Perhaps they figured driving a car into the place would pull walkers to the gates. Or maybe they are just that dumb. If they had a car, or better yet, a big ass truck with mud tires that won't get stuck on zombie guts and has big swords sticking out the sides so they can mow down and chop up zombie hordes, then the story wouldn't be dramatic. They would open the gates, drive out yelling "Yeeee-Hawwww!" and the episode would be over. Granted, it would be a cool episode, but no drama. Unless they got into the middle of the horde and it stalled and they were stuck with a thousand zombies around them.. that would be fun, but maybe they could all just crawl under a dumpster and the zombies would go away...

What I find illogical is building walls like that but without a fallback or even gating off sections in case one section fails.. I can sit here and think of a hundred things that would make perfect sense in that kind of world for making a "safe" place to live but I guess the writers just decided to make all the characters really dumb.

BTW, if that wall used 4" I-beams set in the ground every 4 feet, the walls would have bent *maybe* but not just come down completely.. It might have allowed a small gap for walkers to get in but if the town rallied they could stem the flow, fight them as they come in one at a time, and soon the pile of bodies would be a new wall. My brother drove into a fence built with 3" I-Beams, and it tore the car up to pieces but didn't even scratch the fence. A wooden house, even a few tons of it, wouldn't do that. But again, if you use logic you end up with no drama.

Blackfoot:

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What I find illogical is building walls like that but without a fallback or even gating off sections in case one section fails.. I can sit here and think of a hundred things that would make perfect sense in that kind of world for making a "safe" place to live but I guess the writers just decided to make all the characters really dumb.

BTW, if that wall used 4" I-beams set in the ground every 4 feet, the walls would have bent *maybe* but not just come down completely.. It might have allowed a small gap for walkers to get in but if the town rallied they could stem the flow, fight them as they come in one at a time, and soon the pile of bodies would be a new wall. My brother drove into a fence built with 3" I-Beams, and it tore the car up to pieces but didn't even scratch the fence. A wooden house, even a few tons of it, wouldn't do that. But again, if you use logic you end up with no drama.
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Its almost like you've read the comic. Sometimes I feel like they should just follow the book, but then again the book may translate terribly to the screen. Case in point is Negan, and Ezekiel. I don't know how the hell they are going to pull off making either of these characters believable as human beings.

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